BBC has a nice article about Katie Bouman and Hacker News is.... going through the git repos seeing if she actually did the work https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19632086 …https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-47891902 …
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Replying to @johnregehr
The thread may have looked different earlier, but the comment in question is dead so it has essentially been eliminated by the HN community and not shown unless you are logged in with a non-default option set. The overall HN response seems to have been mostly supportive of Dr. B?
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Replying to @trav_downs
glad they came around! I haven't been back to the thread since yesterday, when it was fairly odious
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Replying to @johnregehr @trav_downs
I have downvote powers and used them *extensively*. This is me on this kind of HN thread:pic.twitter.com/WdH1inmNiJ
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Replying to @geofflangdale @trav_downs
yeah, I swore off HN (logged out and forgot my password) long before I could get any sort of credibility there
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Replying to @johnregehr @trav_downs
It can be pretty bad. But I've had some useful conversations there. Downvote and upvote together can help shape a conversation, and I will go on social issue threads and rapid-downvote every knee-jerk dudebro type response and rapid-upvote all skeptical reponses.
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Replying to @geofflangdale @trav_downs
yeah there's a base of serious expertise there, it just doesn't come out that often
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it's why I still go there sometimes
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What's your hit rate? I estimate ~1/year on my end :x
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Replying to @pkhuong @johnregehr and
One issue (IMO) is there are people who are legitimate experts on some topics who seem compelled to write up reasonable sounding but completely bogus comments on other topics. Unless you're a subject-matter expert, I think it would be hard to determine which comments are bogus.
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The obviously completely wrong comments don't bother me (everyone can tell those are wrong), but a pet peeve of mine are the people who are credible who feel like they have to comment on everything. There are three or four people like this. Why!? It's a waste of everyone's time.
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When they comment on topics I know about, the comments are very wrong (but not obviously so to a lay person). I'm guessing they're no different on topics I don't know about outside of their expertise. This is one of the two main reasons I don't read a lot of HN comments anymore.
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Definitely. The same suspects turn up on regular expression threads and talk about regular expression derivatives *every* *single* *time*. They don't have experience building this stuff, but they've read a couple papers or blog posts and just want to show that off.
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